Lucille Lortel Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Lucille Lortel Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Lucille Lortel (née Wadler, December , â€" April , ) was an American

actress, artistic director, and theatrical producer. In the course of

her career Lortel produced or co-produced nearly plays, five of which

were nominated for Tony Awards: As Is by William M. Hoffman, Angels

Fall by Lanford Wilson, Blood Knot by Athol Fugard, Mbongeni Ngema's

Sarafina!, and A Walk in the Woods by Lee Blessing. She also produced

Marc Blitzstein's adaptation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's

Threepenny Opera, a production which ran for seven years and according

to The New York Times "caused such a sensation that it...put

Off-Broadway on the map."Lortel was born Lucille Wadler on December ,

, at Attorney Street in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, one of four

siblings born to Anny and Harris Wadler, Jewish immigrants of Polish

descent. Her father was a manufacturer of women's clothes and

frequently traveled to Europe to buy designs that he would copy. She

had two brothers, Mayo (a violinist) and Seymour, and a sister, Ruth.

She was raised in both the Bronx and Manhattan. She was homeschooled,

after which she attended college at Adelphi University in Brooklyn,

New York. She was remembered by her friends for being vivacious,

outgoing, and flirtatious, and was known to be found dancing at

parties well into her s.In , Lortel (her stage surname) began to study

acting and theatre at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. In , she

briefly left the United States to continue her training with Max

Reinhardt in Berlin. She made her Broadway debut in in the Theatre

Guild's production of Caesar and Cleopatra alongside Helen Hayes. In ,

she appeared in Michael Kallesser's One Man's Woman at the th Street

Theatre in Manhattan. She also appeared in David Belasco's The Dove

with Judith Anderson, and as Poppy in the touring company of The

Shanghai Gesture with Florence Reed. In , Lortel played the female

lead in The Man Who Laughed Last with star Sessue Hayakawa. She

performed the role both on stage and on film in what was one of the

first talking pictures.In Lortel married paper industrialist and

philanthropist Louis Schweitzer. In deference to her husband's

concerns, she retired from acting in .
Lucille Lortel Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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